Harbour Today

[mottyman]

G'day guys and girls,

We fished the Harbour today and had our own kingy social as a few others did. On board we had Geoff, Andy, Jon (paint stripper) and my good self.

The conditions were actually splendid and very comfortable, but as others have said, totally respect the decision to cancel the social. It's just a shame the forcast was so wrong.

We headed down the Harbour and loaded up with Yakkas in no time over near Watsons Bay but unfortunately couldn't get any squid which was a real shame. There were some very big slimies as well which we had a ball with.

I put down a frozen squid on a sliding snell rig and it got hammered but I pulled the hooks shortly into the fight not long after I'd done the hard work of getting the fish of the bottom.

I put down another squid and got hit again but no result and came back minced.

Put down a livie in the spot where we were catching them for not a touch.

Meanwhile, the live bait tank was being filled by Andy and Jon. They were catching them 6 at a time on the sabiki rigs.

We then tried over near Balmoral and Middle Head for not much including livies swimming happily and finally found our way over to Clifton Gardens with a few other boats.

Got on the pick and burley'd for heaps of flatties!! It was just about one bait one fish. We ended up with a good feed and Jon got a very nice Trevor. Of course the little reddies were there, Jon got a beautiful Gunard, Geoff a flounder as well as some big oversize slimies.

We saw two small kings boated here but our livies continued to swim unharrassed. I was very disappointed with that I must say. I was so sure I'd convert at least one of the thousand yakka on board into a bigger fish.

Anyway, we came home with a nice feed of fish for everyone on board and we all had a magnificent day with plenty of jokes and good natured digs.

I'll throw up a pic of the catch when Geoff emails it to me.

Cheers

David.

Happy Campers with a feed!